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- She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.
- Henry James (1843 - 1916)
- The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.
- Henry James (1843 - 1916)
- If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.
- Juan Ramon Jiminez
- Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881), "The Brothers Karamazov"
- Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
- Charles Bukowski (1920 - 1994), From "Betting on the Muse"
- Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)
- The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
- J. Frank Dobie (1888 - 1964), "A Texan in England", 1945
- Leave it to a girl to take the fun out of sex discrimination.
- Bill Watterson (1958 - ), Calvin in "Calvin and Hobbes"
- My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983)
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